China's UBTECH opened a humanoid robot plant. Robots build one robot every 10 minutes.
Production started on 12 September in Liuzhou, Guangxi. UBTECH Robotics says the line completes one humanoid every 10 minutes and the site is designed for more than 10,000 robots a year, up from a 1,000-unit line less than nine months ago. Interesting Engineering puts the hall at 14,000 square metres, building the Walker S industrial and Cruzr service series.
Siemens Digital Industries Software built the plant's digital twin and its manufacturing operations management system, which plans and schedules production across the factory and runs the quality checks.
A 10-minute cycle is a materials problem before it is a robotics one. Someone has to plan the parts, release the orders, book the inventory and cost the unit.
The two numbers measure different things: 10 minutes is the stated interval between finished units, 10,000 the designed annual capacity, not shipments. The footage is UBTECH's own launch film.
🎥 Video: UBTECH Robotics, official YouTube channel, 15 Sep 2026.
When a humanoid lands on your shop floor, what is it in your ERP: a fixed asset, a lease, or a service contract you expense?
What the captions say
- Inside UBTECH's new humanoid robot plant in Liuzhou, China.
- One industrial humanoid rolls off this line every 10 minutes.
- Capacity went from 1,000 to 10,000 units, UBTECH says.
- Robots and driverless carts move parts between the stations.
- Siemens software schedules the work and monitors the quality.
- Humanoid labour now has a supply chain behind it.
